{"id":8949,"date":"2011-09-21T13:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T02:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2011-09-21T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T02:08:04","slug":"equality-for-all-dean-of-hobart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/09\/21\/equality-for-all-dean-of-hobart\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality for All &#8211; Dean of Hobart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This letter to the editor from The Very Reverend Richard Humphrey, Dean of Hobart, appeared in The Mercury today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Equality for all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/article\/2011\/09\/20\/262641_tasmania-news.html\">cartoon<\/a> (<em>Mercury, <\/em>September 20) suggests anyone who opposes the proposed redefinition of marriage has no right to speak This is contradictory in a debate about equality and rights. Further, we are told to mind our own business, yet it is a minority who seek to irrevocably change what marriage means for the rest of the community, and with it the understanding of family. The Anglican Church in Tasmania has supported same-sex relationships and advocated for protection from discrimination of same-sex couples legislation. We also will continue to uphold marriage as taught by Jesus and defined in law as between a man and woman.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/09\/20\/response-to-greens-motion\/\">Response to Greens&#8217; Motion <\/a>which includes my media release sent out yesterday. You may also want to vote NO to the redefinition of marriage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/article\/2011\/09\/20\/262641_tasmania-news.html\">here<\/a> (Mercury Webpoll).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter to the editor from The Very Reverend Richard Humphrey, Dean of Hobart, appeared in The Mercury today: Equality for all Your cartoon (Mercury, September 20) suggests anyone who opposes the proposed redefinition of marriage has no right to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/09\/21\/equality-for-all-dean-of-hobart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}